“Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.”

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

There is no word more “dangerous” than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new “unforgivable sin.”

Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

To tell a woman who is forty, “You look like sixteen,” is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is “Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order.

Modern man has so long preached a doctrine of false tolerance; he has so long believed that right and wrong were only differences in a point of view, that now when evil works itself out in practice he is paralyzed to do anything against it.

No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.